What does organize mean?
Definitions for organize
ˈɔr gəˌnaɪzor·ga·nize
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word organize.
Princeton's WordNet
form, organize, organiseverb
create (as an entity)
"social groups form everywhere"; "They formed a company"
organize, organiseverb
cause to be structured or ordered or operating according to some principle or idea
mastermind, engineer, direct, organize, organise, orchestrateverb
plan and direct (a complex undertaking)
"he masterminded the robbery"
organize, organise, coordinateverb
bring order and organization to
"Can you help me organize my files?"
organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up, machinateverb
arrange by systematic planning and united effort
"machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office"
unionize, unionise, organize, organiseverb
form or join a union
"The auto workers decided to unionize"
Wiktionary
organizeverb
To arrange in working order.
organizeverb
To constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; to systematize.
organizeverb
To furnish with organs; to give an organic structure to; to endow with capacity for the functions of life; as, an organized being; organized matter; in this sense used chiefly in the past participle.
organizeverb
To sing in parts; as, to organize an anthem.
Etymology: From organizare (compare Medieval Latin organizare), from organum; see organ.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To Organizeverb
To construct so as that one part co-operates with another; to form organically.
Etymology: organiser, Fr. from organ.
As the soul doth organize the body, and give unto every member thereof that substance, quantity, and shape, which nature seeth most expedient, so the inward grace of sacraments may teach what serveth best for their outward form. Richard Hooker, b. v. s. 58.
A genial and cherishing heat so acts upon the fit and obsequious matter, wherein it was harboured, as to organize and fashion that disposed matter according to the exigencies of its own nature. Boyle.
Those nobler faculties in the mind, matter organized could never produce. John Ray, on the Creation.
The identity of the same man consists in a participation of the same continued life, by constantly fleeting particles in succession vitally united to the same organized body. John Locke.
Wikipedia
ORGANIZE
ORGANIZE is a US-based non-profit focused on bringing reform to the organ donation system. ORGANIZE was co-founded by Jenna Arnold and Greg Segal in late 2013 after Segal's father, Rick Segal, was forced to wait five years to undergo a heart transplant. In 2015, ORGANIZE received an Innovator in Residence position in the Office of the US Secretary of Health and Human Services and was a featured presenter the 2016 White House Organ Donation Summit. On May 14, 2017, ORGANIZE's living donor registry, www.giveandlive.us, was the featured call to action on the HBO series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
ChatGPT
organize
To organize means to arrange or structure things in an orderly, systematic, or logical manner. It involves categorizing or coordinating elements or activities according to a specific plan or set of rules for efficiency and effectiveness. This can apply to objects, data, events or tasks, groups or individual people, and more.
Military Dictionary and Gazetteer
organize
To arrange or constitute in parts, each having a special function, act, office, or relation; as, to organize an army, etc.
Editors Contribution
organize
To create in a structured and systematic way.
They did organize their wedding very easily as they are both organized.
Submitted by MaryC on February 1, 2020
Suggested Resources
Organize
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British National Corpus
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'organize' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3627
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'organize' in Verbs Frequency: #522
Anagrams for organize »
agonizer
orangize
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of organize in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of organize in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of organize in a Sentence
When you have a straw poll, it forces you to turn out people to an event. They make a bigger commitment of giving up their day in the summer to go vote for you at an event. Even though it doesn't matter, it's not binding, it forces you to organize early, it would have forced everyone to organize because the risk of not organizing is that you might get ejected from the race. Not having a straw poll hurt.
Corrections Director Bryan Stirling:
Over the last almost 20 years now, cell phones have allowed these folks that are incarcerated and the folks on the outside to communicate and organize and bring contraband in and also pay for it, so, that is obviously a problem that we have addressed.
When it's safe to organize door knocks and hold events, I think people will be really excited to go back to doing that ... (but) now they'll know there are these options digitally that can be just as impactful.
The Torah guides everything that we do at Yeshiva — from how we educate students to how we run our dining halls to how we organize our campus, we care deeply for and welcome all our students, including our LGBTQ students, and continue to be engaged in a productive dialogue with our Rabbis, faculty and students on how we apply our Torah values to create an inclusive campus environment. We only ask the government to allow us the freedom to apply the Torah in accordance with our values.
It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire -- learned from the teachings of antiquity -- that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.
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- نظمArabic
- organitzarCatalan, Valencian
- zorganizovat, roztřídit, organizovat se, zatřídit, uspořádat, srovnat, utřídit, organizovatCzech
- trefnuWelsh
- organisereDanish
- organisierenGerman
- organizarSpanish
- سازماندهی, سامان دادنPersian
- organisoida, järjestää, järjestellä, systematisoidaFinnish
- organiserFrench
- व्यवस्था करनाHindi
- megszervez, szervez, rendezHungarian
- կազմակերպել, դասավորելArmenian
- mengaturIndonesian
- 組織Japanese
- 조직하다Korean
- organizeLatin
- organiserenDutch
- organisereNorwegian
- organizowaćPolish
- organizarPortuguese
- pawayQuechua
- organisarRomansh
- organizaRomanian
- организовать, организовыватьRussian
- organizírati, organizovati, организоватиSerbo-Croatian
- organizojAlbanian
- pangaSwahili
- ஏற்பாடுTamil
- నిర్వహించడానికిTelugu
- จัดระเบียบThai
- організуватиUkrainian
- tổ chứcVietnamese
- אָרגאַניזירןYiddish
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